Excited and incredibly grateful to have won an @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Future Fellowship!! I'll be working with Indigenous communities along Australia's Great Barrier Reef to generate paired high-resolution baseline records of environmental change and marine resource use over the last 6500 years 🐚🔬🐚

Also featuring: @amylprendergast.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @au.dk

seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

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Our new study delivers the most extensive calibration to date of <i>Patella caerulea</i> (the Mediterranean limpet) as a recorder of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the Central and Eastern Medi...

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Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets

The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…

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Huge congratulations to Bohao Dong for pressing the submit button on his PhD today!! 🎉🎉🎉 #ProudSupervisor #sclerochronology #GiantClams #unimelb @laura-m-otter.bsky.social @seanulm.bsky.social

It has been exciting watching this paper go from dreams to reality over the last few years. Congratulations Zuorui Liu (Carl) 🎉

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷 Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes #ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷 Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes #ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The effectiveness of oxygen isotopes in Spinosaurus tooth dentine for high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

Oxygen isotope compositions in tooth dentine of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus were investigated as a potential proxy for high-resolution reconstructions of …

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Congratulations to Bohao Dong on his PhD completion seminar! 🎉🎉🎉 A phenomenal project advancing the possibilities of giant clam shell sclerochronology. Such a lot of hard work and excellent data has gone into this project. #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @laura-m-otter.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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One for the mollusc enthusiasts: Vote for the International mollusc of the year 🐚🐌🦪 The winner will have their complete genome sequenced! As a sclerochronologist I am leaning towards Arctica islandica but of course I always have a soft spot for limpets (Cellana) too! moty.senckenberg.science/en/

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample

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Super proud of our PhD researcher Carl Zuorui Liu for giving an awesome PhD completion seminar today - an amazing journey through space and time showcasing the awesome things we can learn using tooth sclerochronology. Well done Carl! 🦷🦣🔬#SciMelb #ProudSupervisor

ALL RESEARCHERS ❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants. Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_... It’s EASY! Answer these questions in the form👇

Did you know that giant clam shells are excellent high-resolution past climate archives? Check out the first publication from Bohao Dong's PhD! A review of giant clam sclerochronology #ProudSupervisor #palaeoclimate @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advances in giant clam (Tridacnidae spp.) sclerochronology and sclerochemistry as a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental archive

Reconstructions of Quaternary environmental change using high-resolution proxies are important for testing and refining climate models to enable bette…

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Did you know that modern-day shells hold clues to life and climates of the past? To learn more, feel free to check out this latest research paper involving several CIEHF members. ciehf.au/wp-content/u...

2024 has been a rollercoaster of a year, with plenty of highs and lows, but always thankful to be working alongside this awesome team. Can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for the #unimelb sclerochronology team! 🐚

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

A wonderful end of year lunch with the #unimelb Sclerochronology lab - @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social @osteo-clo.bsky.social, Bohao, and Carl - celebrating our various achievements over the past year… of course with shell themed presents too!! 🐚🐚🐚🎉🥳🎉

A wonderful end of year lunch with the #unimelb Sclerochronology lab - @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social @osteo-clo.bsky.social, Bohao, and Carl - celebrating our various achievements over the past year… of course with shell themed presents too!! 🐚🐚🐚🎉🥳🎉

I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.

Who are the pioneers of archaeology? Addressing gender bias in our field means rethinking disciplinary history Join us at WAC-10 for (Re)making History: Exploring the Archaeological Contributions of Women from Past to Present worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-... Photo coriniummuseum

New feed for archaeomalacologists on BlueSky. 🐚 The feed is searching for any posts with the following words: archaeomalacology, sclerochronology, shellfish archaeology, shell archaeology, shell midden, shell bead, shell tool. Let me know what else I can add :) 🐚

I am very happy to share my PhD student @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social’s first PhD publication! 🐚🐚🎉🎉 Great Barrier Reef Conomurex shells as SST and seasonal foraging archives #sclerochronology #unimelb #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sclerochronology and oxygen isotope variations in modern Conomurex luhuanus shells: An archive for reconstructing palaeotemperature and shellfish gathering on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus is a common component of Holocene archaeological shell deposits in the Western Indo-Pacific region. Oxygen iso…

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Now it’s official I am stoked to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor at #unimelb. Thanks heaps to all who have helped and supported me along the way in my academic and professional journey 🎉🐚🔬🌊🤠

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Had a fantastic time presenting at #AAA47 yesterday alongside Nick! Thank you to everyone who came and had a chat afterwards! Great to see others interested in the potential of freshwater mussels to understand past human-mussel-environment relationships using #sclerochronology & #TEK 🐚

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wonderful joint presentation today at #AAA47 by #unimelb PhD researcher @osteo-clo.bsky.social and First People of the Millewa Mallee River Ranger Nick Harradine on people-mussel-environment relationships weaving #sclerochronology & #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledges

What a wonderful start to #AAA45 in #Gimuy we appreciate you inviting #SINGAustralia to open with an #Indigenous #Genomics panel and thank you @ciehf.bsky.social for sponsoring our session

Wonderful joint presentation today at #AAA47 by #unimelb PhD researcher @osteo-clo.bsky.social and First People of the Millewa Mallee River Ranger Nick Harradine on people-mussel-environment relationships weaving #sclerochronology & #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledges

Yay! @bsky.app now counted in @altmetric.com! Now we just have to get the academic publishers to add Bluesky share buttons (looking at you, @royalsociety.org, @science.org, @pnas.org, Wiley, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @cellpress.bsky.social, Frontiers, @plos.bsky.social ...)

Exciting new Post Doctoral Position with CIEHF has just been released at our University of Western Australia (UWA) node! Head to their careers and jobs page for more information. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... Closing date: 12:00 PM AWST on Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.

Michael Plank@michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is so backward 1. Science is more than just commercialisable widgetry 2. Making progress on our biggest problems (climate change, infectious diseases, misinfo to name a few) will need more collaboration between STEM and hum/social sci not less.

Great first day at the Australian Archaeological Association 2024 Conference #AAA47. Heaps of awesome talks in the Archaeological Science session @arcas.org.au. Great fun catching up with friends and colleagues and wonderful to be back in Gimuy Cairns too! #australianarchaeology #archsci